The not so Boring Report. Sorry Tree. Boring is actual a suburb of the
greater Portland, Gresham area on US 26 on the way to Mt Hood and Bend
Oregon. Know it well as the area was stomping ground in my youth. I'm
now an old fart who has been in the desert for over 30 years.
Here is my Propagation perspective from the West:
Except for rare Greyline at sunset propagation it takes several hours
for the F1 and F2 layers to settle. This early in the season out west
and you stay up to midnight you might get lucky but usually hear
nothing. The exception is those to far south and those to far north.
No propagation? 160m is always open somewhere. Sunrise here in the west
has seen many openings to VK and ZL with Asiatic Russia thrown in. All
summer there were good openings to South America, Central America and
occasional African.
While the Midwest guys are enjoying getting into EU, West of the Rockies
only a few openings occur this early. Guys in the northern western tier
states and Canada with good RX capabilities can bust through the Auroral
zone and work into EU. The rest of us will have to be satisfied with
Mediterranean and North Africa. Thus far I've heard peeps from Wolf
DF2PY and Len SM7BIC. ON the other hand out of the blue 4U1GSC (Italy)
had a great signal at their sunrise two nights ago. Unfortunately I was
dealing with a line of thunderstorms on that path.
In other comments I tend to agree with Merv and Paul on recent comments.
I get kinda of sensitive once in a while regarding regarding remote
operations because I'm in a group of a half dozen or so who primary
station is remote and solely for my use taking years to build and
optimize not to mention maintain. I don't like being lumped into the
dialup group.
Not being an avid DX'er card carrying member I'll take my poke. The real
proof of the pudding is in competitions because your "$10,000 radio" is
not going to work UN5J on FT8 with a 50cent antenna regardless of how
much power you run. To satisfy the argument my primary station is a
lowly TS480. My wife on the other hand would like to think I didn't
spend as much as I did on land and infrastructure. LOL
The ultimate award is competing on fair grounds with your peers and
getting nominated to Contesting Hall of Fame. This half deaf old timer
will never achieve that but still enjoys the competition in Zone 3!
With that in mind. Put on your headphones work them whatever way you
want because in the end it just doesn't matter to anyone except oneself.
73, Bob
W7RH
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein
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